Closed.

So, we closed on the flip house on Monday - it went well and smooth, no 11th hour surprises. They did the walk through at 8am - of course the skies opened up that day but other than that, nothing. I had the day off so no stress there and when we were done it was a weight off my shoulders and David's

We deposited the check at a local bank and as we  headed home, David said to me 

"Well, I guess I can tell you now."

Let me tell you -we've been married for about 35 years and every time he says that I want to stick a fork in his eyeball and twirl it - you have no idea. So I rose to the bait - tell me what? - and he did. Apparently the guy next door, the one with the batshit crazy mother in law that had his shed on our property along with having his telephone pole placed in the center of our backyard  

https://julia-yarnsandtalltails.blogspot.com/2018/04/good-fences-make-good-neighbors-unless.html 

 had taken David to court to sue him for $11,000!  ARRGH. He came out with a lawyer but nothing else. He was suing for replacing the rotting shed with a one car garage, wanted us to pay for his electric hookup and loss of rental income stating that David was driving away potential renters.

David pointed out the lack of electricity was more the cause of no renters to the broken down trailer than him, he had pictures of the shed, a witness, emails from West Penn etc.... The lawyer kept objecting when he spoke so when it was the lawyer's turn David starting objecting to everything he said - the lawyer rather crossly told David since he wasn't a lawyer he couldn't object - so David told the judge he objected to that. Sigh. David doesn't think he'll get anything but stranger things have happened - if it does come to that we can contest it. However, on we go - David is 2/3 of the way to finishing the upstairs, we have the new siding ordered, etc..  onward, ever onward.